Format Date/Time in Perl

Working with dates is a very common feature of any application, be it a web app or a desktop one. Some people consider Perl to be a language where working with dates is hard, but basically it's quite easy if you know how to. Datetime is a common term while refering to date and time together.

Basics

Basic formatting of datetime in Perl is done by writing your own formatting logic, we'll use the localtime function to get the current datetime details. For more info about the locatime function checkout http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/localtime.html